Monica

Profile InfoMonica Gerhard is the feisty lady who presents a 30 minutes slot on Tuesdays during the Prontuit program from 12:00 to 12:30 highlighting issues of people living with disabilities. Monica has been with the station from 2005 and says that her disability has never stood in her way and she is living a fulfilled life despite having lost her limbs and feet in a car accident when she was young.

Monica is an inspiring activist who was at one stage a provincial organizer for APD (Association for People with Disabilities). Being in the company of Monica you can only learn a lot from her and her outlook on life. She says she wants to see a South Africa that is better accessible for the disabled people and that together with government and other civil society organizations this place will ultimately better accommodate the needs of disability people, whether it is how buildings are built, how roads are constructed to how disabled students are accommodated at schools and tertiary education.

This or that with Monica

RRS: What is your favorite time of the day?

MG: Waking up in the morning just the mere fact that I was spared another day to live and contribute to a better society. I pray when I wake up and when I go to bed to thank God for the gift of life.

RRS: What do you love about radio?

MG: Interaction with a variety of people from different walk of life, that’s what I love most about radio as it gives me this awesome opportunity.I love the love that listeners give when they call in.

RRS: What is your biggest fear in live?

MG: Not doing everything that I can do to make a difference in some ones live.

RRS: Who inspires you a lot?

MG: The Olympic medalist Natalie Du Toit, she has never used her disability as an obstacle to achieving her dreams. I believe that she is a role model to many South Africans and people of the world.

RRS: How do you relax?

MG: I read a lot of magazines and newspapers as I believe an active mind provides a healthy body?

RRS: What do you think of South Africa since the dawn of democracy?

MG: I believe that we are on the right track to where we want to be. A society that embraces each other and where poverty will ultimately be eradicated and people live in harmony with each other.

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